Aaron Lamb is a director and the Producing Artistic Director of Harlequin Productions in Olympia, Washington, where he has directed over thirty productions.

Recent work includes Our Town and Sanctuary City (2026, in repertory), Wait Until Dark (2026), Rent (2025 Seattle Gregory Award nomination, Best Direction), Cabaret (2024 Seattle Gregory Award, Best Direction), Sweeney Todd with conductor Alexandra Arrieche and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra, and the first regional production of Tina Satter’s Is This a Room. In 2026 he was associate director of Barefoot in the Park, a co-production of Taproot Theatre Company and Harlequin. His adaptations include A Doll’s House (translated and adapted) and Hedda Gabler. His work — whether verbatim documentary, Ibsen, or Sondheim — shares a commitment to complexity over polemic, an insistence that provocation requires participation, and a refusal to inherit conventions uncritically.

Aaron came to directing through a career as an actor, working regionally at Village Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Playhouse on the Square, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, and Cherry Lane Theatre, among others. His performances earned a Kennedy Center ACTF Award for Best of Festival, the Memphis Critics Ostrander Award, a Seattle Times Spotlight Award, a Seattle Critics Footlight Award, and an OC Weekly Award. A professional pianist and music director, he brings a musician’s ear to pacing and structure, and a shared vocabulary with composers, conductors, and musical theatre artists.

Upcoming: Octopus’s Garden (with String & Shadow Puppet Theatre), Fallen Angels, and 1984, all in 2027. Aaron is an alumnus of Directors Lab West, an associate member of SDC, and a member of Actors’ Equity and TCG.

MFA, Acting, California State University Fullerton.
BA, Humanities (Music, Drama, English), Washington State University.
Professional development: Cornell Executive Education (in progress).
Additional studies: Stella Adler Conservatory (NYC), American Musical and Dramatic Academy (NYC).